What is cyberbullying, exactly? - Atheist Nexus2016-12-09T13:56:14Zhttp://atheistnexus.org/forum/topics/what-is-cyberbullying-exactly?groupUrl=it-gets-better&commentId=2182797%3AComment%3A2148134&xg_source=activity&groupId=2182797%3AGroup%3A1773427&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThis cyberbully portion of th…tag:atheistnexus.org,2013-01-20:2182797:Comment:21481342013-01-20T18:33:17.884ZRuth Anthony-Gardnerhttp://atheistnexus.org/profile/RuthAnthonyGardner
<p>This cyberbully portion of this article may interest youl. <a href="http://machineslikeus.com/news/mapping-our-online-communications" target="_blank">Mapping our online communications</a></p>
<p>I'd never imagined bullying by pretending to be friends with a lonely child.</p>
<blockquote><p>... <strong>when that harassment occurs online, the victims tend to be in mainstream social groups at the school – and they are often friends or former friends, not strangers.</strong></p>
<p>... as many…</p>
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<p>This cyberbully portion of this article may interest youl. <a href="http://machineslikeus.com/news/mapping-our-online-communications" target="_blank">Mapping our online communications</a></p>
<p>I'd never imagined bullying by pretending to be friends with a lonely child.</p>
<blockquote><p>... <strong>when that harassment occurs online, the victims tend to be in mainstream social groups at the school – and they are often friends or former friends, not strangers.</strong></p>
<p>... as many as 160,000 students a year skip school just to avoid being harassed, and texting and social media are making it easier than ever to harass classmates.</p>
<p>What they found was that cyber-aggression occurs in the mainstream of the school and largely among friends, former friends, and former dating partners. They also found that non-heterosexual students were more likely to be the victims. Examples of the types of harassment found online were posting humiliating photos, texting vicious rumors, posting that a student is gay and making fun of him, and pretending to befriend a lonely person.</p>
<p>"Cyber-aggression occurred most often among relatively popular young people, rather than among those on the fringes of the school hierarchy," Felmlee says. "<strong>Those engaging in cyber-aggression also were unlikely to target strangers but often were in close relationships with their victims at one point in time, close enough to know how to harm them.</strong>"</p>
<p>The researchers found that some of the processes that contribute to aggression in school include jockeying for status, enforcing norms of conformity, and competing for girlfriends or boyfriends. [second emphasis mine]</p>
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